5 PDF documents
This report describes the Modeling of Unlikely Space-Booster Failures in Risk Calculations, documenting historical launch failure modes and recommending corrective actions to address them using novel modelling techniques.
Each of these incident summaries includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and other narrative reports or descriptions.
A collection of USAF Incident Summary Sheets from 1947-1948, detailing UFO sightings across the United States and Japan. Reports include witness statements from civilians, pilots, and military personnel, with descriptions of object shapes and behaviors.
FBI file from 1954 detailing investigations into flying saucer claims. Includes reports on Truman Bethurum's lectures, Frances Swan's telepathic contacts with aliens, and citizen correspondence regarding saucer groups and magazine articles.
This file contains memorandums, correspondence, and forms related to the reporting of information on flying discs and investigations into sightings.
A 1953 CIA routing slip and cover letter transmitting the 'Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects' (Robertson Panel) to the Secretary of Defense. The report concludes UFOs are not a direct threat but pose a risk of clogging communication channels.
Collection of U.S. Army Air Forces reports from July-September 1947 detailing 'Flying Disc' sightings by airline pilots near Boston, MA, military personnel and civilians in Birmingham, AL, and multiple witnesses in Newfoundland, Canada.
A 1949 Atomic Energy Commission transcript of a conference at Los Alamos discussing sightings of green fireballs. Experts, including Dr. LaPaz, debate their origin, trajectory, color, and lack of sound, considering meteors, secret tests, and other phenomena.
Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and other narrative reports or descriptions.
CIA memorandum from December 1953 detailing the current status of the Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOB) project. It discusses the transfer of Project Bluebook to the Air Defense Command, camera programs, and intelligence interests from other countries.
Collection of NASA internal documents from 1966 concerning the Gemini IX mission debriefing. Includes typed and handwritten notes, memoranda, and routing slips detailing scientific experiments, astronaut observations, and operational feedback from the mission.
CIA file from 1953 containing the Robertson Panel's report on Unidentified Flying Objects. The panel concluded UFOs were not a direct threat but recommended a public education program to debunk sightings and reduce public interest, mitigating potential psychological warfare risks.
FBI file from 1957 detailing an interview with Wladyslaw Krasuski, a Polish WWII POW, who reported observing a circular craft in Germany in 1944. The file also contains a 1966 inquiry from the Oklahoma UFO Research Association.
